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And what do they want!?
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until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
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But this too is true: stories can save us.
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EPICTETUS Our future competitors will be the Italians because they occupy the high-class market.
LEO CHENG We cater to 'smart kids' as well. It's important that the smart kids help others that need it.
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When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, th...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.
SLICK RICK![]()
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
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GREG GIANFORTE It was good to see the double-digit sales growth and the strong (profit) margin expansion. It provid...
ANTHONY CHUKUMBA![]()
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ...
ANDY ROONEY (Intel) withdrew the how-to manual from three of its customers in a very selective, targeted fashion...
WILLIAM BAER
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN From Intel's perspective, this is a new market they're trying to enter that has high margins. They n...
DAVID POWERS Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a pla...
BRITT BEEMER To compete in a specialist market like marine when you've got a high exchange rate is exceptionally ...
MAURICE STILWELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER He [Ward] focused on the high-end of the market and neglected the low-end shares.
EFRAIM LEVY We make a profit from time to time, but there is a minimal profit margin in the restaurant business ...
JEFF YATES
The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. STEVE BLANK The companies stand to do some profit because the oil is already there. All they have to do is take ...
JASON SCHENKER There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are...
LOUIS NAVELLIER We decided to break away from that market. It's the most price-sensitive, low-margin, highly competi...
STEVE DAVIS I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN High self-esteem allows to cope more effectively.They take the setback in stride and make the necess...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO Aspect concentrates on the high-end of the market, but even at the high-end there's a number of init...
BRENT THILL Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON This bankruptcy, they'll emerge from. The question is do they emerge stronger or weaker.
RAY NEIDL
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for... BILL GATES Over the last three or four years, companies have been able to hire whomever. Now the market is star...
KATHRYN ULLRICH When they [pharmaceutical companies] started marketing to the end user (patients), customers started...
DAN OLSON (The scandal) comes at a time when the market is so high. Investors needed an excuse to take profit ...
DAVID MOK I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE And these are all companies that can potentially add value immediately because they have good instal...
BRIAN BABINEAU So far the corporate profit outlook remains positive. I don't hear a lot of companies saying they're...
ERIC KUBY Kids who fail to do anything in their life only search for reasons in the end or sometimes even blam...
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI There are lots of foreign companies that are reluctant to get into that market, because it's not a m...
CRAIG CALDWELL
When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from eve... HOWARD SCHULTZ It should be a place where you have everything you need, a place where, if you don't want to leave t...
LAUREN TERRY He's a low-cost, high-profit operator.
BEN BAGDIKIAN Someone ought to be able to make a profit. If you ask Compaq, they'll tell you they're doing well in...
LOUIS MAZZUCCHELLI The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t...
L. NEIL SMITH These guys didn't jump willy-nilly to convert everything they own. They've been carefully watching a...
DICK BRASS Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to spe...
JUAN WILLIAMS Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.
MICHAEL ATMORE Everything I do is unfabulous. I'm the most normal person. I love walking everywhere and going t...
ASHLEY BENSON
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have...
MATT SALMON The market capitalization increased, and they took advantage of that to do stock swaps to take over ...
IKUO YASUDA We are reaching a low point in the history of the profession. And as we eventually emerge from this ...
ART BOWMAN
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism... SIMON MAINWARING The market is calm despite expectations the government may increase the money market 'short' because...
HUGO MORALES What I see happening is moving from the very high end to a broader market, where I can start to affo...
BILL ABLONDI
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get t... GORDON BETHUNE We have to look at the reasons companies are moving overseas. It used to be a cost issue. Now it's a...
JUSTIN WRIGHT The challenge they face now is that because they've exceeded forecasts in the past they risk disappo...
JOHN SEGRICH
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, becau... JOSH FOX For my point of view, the brightest spot they're showing is in the chipset market. This has, histori...
JONATHAN HYKAWY Give credit to them because of how disruptive they were on defense. Once we made a run their defense...
ASHLEY JOSEPHSON Old Japanese companies tend to stick to business that they started, so it's a positive move because ...
KOJI NAKATSUKA Because of the low unemployment rate, many local employers are already tapping into the retiree mark...
JANET WATERMEIER Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with cu...
ALFRED LIN They are smart designers because they're into the business as well as the creative end.
ANDREW BRENITS People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. W...
EUGENE FAMA Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and dr...
ALEX GIBNEY This could mean challenges for some companies; they might see margin contraction.
TIM ALBRECHT
Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and... AULIQ ICE Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The highest (profit) margin business is the intellectual property business. I think there's a trend ...
JAMES ZOLTAK It is on the high end where we've been lagging. But today, just like we've changed the game in the l...
CARLY FIORINA At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when ...
YVON CHOUINARD You can't ignore that the stakes are high for NBC for this show. They're excited because they need s...
GREG GARCIA What big companies want to do is share information with their customers and partners to increase pro...
DAN LATENDRE
Arguably insane utility workers that blatantly harass law abiding customers is likely to become more... STEVEN MAGEE Coming from where I come from, I feel like I've got to do everything right. There's no shortcut for ...
BOBBY DIXON Many fail because they do nothing out of the fear of making a mistake.
TERENCE T. GORSKI Ericsson and Motorola have had a different approach to the handset market than Nokia. Motorola and E...
CHARLES DISANZA [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE
Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their execut... ALEX BERENSON There's evidence that Amazon has done its homework. "They used insight to refine an offering that wo...
GENE DETROYER Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transporta...
JANET NAPOLITANO
until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.
RYNE SANDBERG They have money, and they want to fly. They want low-cost but something that is smart and socially a...
AJAY SINGH Some companies believe if they took over Knight Ridder, they could raise the margin, either by cutti...
PAUL GINOCCHIO It wasn't making any money. It was a great place to cater out of. Our customers were absolutely wond...
LANA ROBB These companies have all managed to do the right thing. The market loves these stocks.
RICHARD READ PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has res...
GEORGE SHIFFLER
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say ... ANDY ROONEY Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public ...
JAIMIE ROSS
But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, an...
SIMON COWELL There are a lot fewer applications that run on Linux, and this may affect the acceptance. But price ...
FRANK SHI
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approv... EPICURUS
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approv... EPICTETUS Our future competitors will be the Italians because they occupy the high-class market.
LEO CHENG We cater to 'smart kids' as well. It's important that the smart kids help others that need it.
JAMES GARVIN Domestic companies are working to counteract the on-going dumping claims. They understand that they ...
CUI BIN It makes sense for most people to have part of their portfolio invested in high-yielding stocks beca...
HAYWOOD KELLY
When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, th... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.
SLICK RICK
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. RUSSELL BRAND Microsoft is late to the CRM market with 3.0, and faces significant challenges with their antiquated...
GREG GIANFORTE It was good to see the double-digit sales growth and the strong (profit) margin expansion. It provid...
ANTHONY CHUKUMBA
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ... ANDY ROONEY (Intel) withdrew the how-to manual from three of its customers in a very selective, targeted fashion...
WILLIAM BAER
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
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